GateHouse News Service New England Budget  June 21, 2007

Thursday

Jun 21, 2007 at 12:01 AMJun 21, 2007 at 9:20 PM

Here are the top New England regional stories coming today from GateHouse News Service.

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Here are the top New England regional stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Please submit stories below no later than 6 p.m. local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. Questions?

Contact: Chris Biondi, (508) 626-4343, cbiondi@gatehousemedia.com

News

GANG BUSTUP – Framingham’s KST gang indicted on federal drug charges. They used myspace to recruit members and intimidate witnesses. In all, 20 were indicted today on cocaine charges. They dealt more than a kilo of cocaine out of Framingham a week.
METROWEST DAILY NEWS, Miller, 18 inches, 6 p.m. Early version on MW Web site
Photos: mug shots
With sidebar charticle chronicling their crime wave in Framingham

TWO PORTUGAL PRESIDENT OPTIONS
HUDSON VISIT TONIGHT - President of Portugal visiting Hudson tonight at Portuguese Club so should be filed by 11 p.m.
METROWEST DAILY NEWS, Athas, 15 inches, NOT UNTIL 11 p.m.
FALL RIVER PREPARES - Fall River’s baking up the Cod and sprucing up the Gates of the City in preparation for the president of Portugal’s visit on Friday.
HERALD NEWS, Welker, 20 inches, 8 p.m.
Photos: of preparations

PROM DRESS DRIVE - Prom season may be over, but Carey Zigouras is hoping someone wears one of her dresses next year. The 23- year-old Brockton native and Wareham resident donated her once-worn special occasion dresses for a Prom Dress Drive to be held Saturday at the Cup of the Bay coffee shop on West Central Avenue.
ENTERPRISE, Kelly, 15 inches 6 p.m.
With photos

SALUTATORIAN RIPPED OFF – Weymouth student learns – from a voice mail after graduation – that he was second in his class and was rightfully the salutatorian.
WEYMOUTH NEWS, Ed Baker, 15 inches, no on wire service

Business

MICROFLUIDICS - Microfluidics Corp. opening a new technology center at its Newton headquarters. The company makes machines that firms use to develop drugs, food, personal care products, etc. They have a new machine coming out soon that could help researchers develop difficult-to-formulate drugs...
METROWEST DAILY NEWS, Turner, 15 inches, 6 p.m.
With photos.

Opinions

EDITORIAL -- Drop out of Electoral College. It's time to fix a mistake made 220 years ago that by some historical accounts, was never intended to last as long as it did anyway.
PATRIOT LEDGER posted now on wire service